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LUXSim: A Component-Centric Approach to Low-Background Simulations
Geant4 has been used throughout the nuclear and high-energy physics community
to simulate energy depositions in various detectors and materials. These
simulations have mostly been run with a source beam outside the detector. In
the case of low-background physics, however, a primary concern is the effect on
the detector from radioactivity inherent in the detector parts themselves. From
this standpoint, there is no single source or beam, but rather a collection of
sources with potentially complicated spatial extent. LUXSim is a simulation
framework used by the LUX collaboration that takes a component-centric approach
to event generation and recording. A new set of classes allows for multiple
radioactive sources to be set within any number of components at run time, with
the entire collection of sources handled within a single simulation run.
Various levels of information can also be recorded from the individual
components, with these record levels also being set at runtime. This
flexibility in both source generation and information recording is possible
without the need to recompile, reducing the complexity of code management and
the proliferation of versions. Within the code itself, casting geometry objects
within this new set of classes rather than as the default Geant4 classes
automatically extends this flexibility to every individual component. No
additional work is required on the part of the developer, reducing development
time and increasing confidence in the results. We describe the guiding
principles behind LUXSim, detail some of its unique classes and methods, and
give examples of usage.
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THE SETTLERS' CATTLE COMPLEX: THE ETIQUETTE OF CULLING CATTLE IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE, 1938
AFRICAN MIDDLE-CLASS STRATEGIES IN COLONIAL ZIMBABWE The Rise of an African Middle Class: Colonial Zimbabwe, 1898–1965
TEXTS, MEANING AND ZIMBABWEAN HISTORY The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe
SQUATTERS, LAND SALES AND INTENSIFICATION IN MARIRANGWE PURCHASE AREA, COLONIAL ZIMBABWE, 1931–65
Christopher J. Lee. Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa. Radical Perspectives: A Radical History Review. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. xvii + 368 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $26.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5725-4.
Imperial Rhodesians: The 1953 Rhodes centenary exhibition in Southern Rhodesia
Reviewing the Rhodes Centenary Exhibition (RCE) of 1953, this article focuses on three interrelated themes in post-war Southern Rhodesia. First, significant post-war immigration challenged the state to educate new white Rhodesians on the founding myths of the colony, especially that of Cecil John Rhodes. Secondly, Southern Rhodesians were anxious to emphasise their status as British subjects in contrast to Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. And finally, a rising and vocal black middle class challenged the state to adjust its national narrative to include blacks in the social process. The RCE spoke to all of these concerns by highlighting Rhodes and the British Royal family as central to a Southern Rhodesian identity that all races could share. Importantly, the black middle class had long embraced Rhodes's notion of 'equal rights for all civilised men' as their entryway into colonial society. At the RCE itself, the 'African Village' showcased African achievement in the arts as a noble contribution to the country. Taken together, the RCE's emphasis on Rhodes and royalty, as well as the focus on African contributions to culture, marked Southern Rhodesia as distinct from apartheid South Africa. © 2005 Journal of Southern African Studies